bitcoreBTX – FAQ

Airdrops were available for everyone that had at least 1.0 BTX in a registered Bitcore address. The airdrops happened every Monday until April 30th, which was the last one. The snapshot was taken between 0:00 am and 24:00 Berlin time. You had to be sure that your funds were in your registered address during that time frame.
An announcement was made in the bitcointalk forum as well as on Twitter each Monday when the airdrops had been sent out.

Claiming refers to our hybrid fork, that allows everyone that held at least 0.01 Bitcoin at the time of the snapshot (BTC block #492820) to claim his BTX. This is still open for anyone.

In order to allow a widespread adoption of Bitcore, we opted for the hybrid-fork model, allowing all BTC holders at the time of the snapshot at the 2nd of November 2017 to receive BTX proportional to their BTC holdings at that time.
If you held BTC at block #492820 of the Bitcoin blockchain and can access your private keys, you automatically received 0.5 BTX per 1.0 BTC in the same address on the Bitcore blockchain.
For more information please read this article, explaining how to safely access your Bitcore funds. Bitcore claiming for Bitcoin holders

Yes, Bitcore started in April 2017 with an empty chain and a snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain @ block 463619. Claiming your BTX 1:1 BTC was possible via a signed message service on the website bitcore.cc until 1st of November 2017. After that, the remaining unclaimed balances were redistributed: 50% are available via the new snapshot from 2nd of November 2017 thanks to our hybrid fork. BTC holders that had at least 0.01 BTC at the moment of the snapshot (Bitcoin block 492820) can claim 0.5 BTX : 1.0 BTC via a private key sweep in the Bitcore core (bitcore-qt) wallet.
The remaining 50% were used for the Monday airdrops which ended on April 30th 2018.

Some of the basic source code for B3 was written by our developer Christian. However this was a side-job as an external programmer, there has never been an affiliation by the Bitcore team or by Chris with B3. Everything regarding B3 is now the full responsibility of the B3 team.Bitcloud is a masternode coin, which is continuing to receive constant updates from Christian. However most members of Bitcore are not involved in BTDX.BitSend is a cryptocurrency with a network being sustained by both miners and masternodes. To allow reaching their full potential in the future, BitSend BSD, together with Bitcore BTX are receiving the main attention from developers and the support team.
This is a direct result of the positive responses both projects continue to receive from the community.

Bitcore is one of the first known cryptocurrencies to use the hybrid fork method to distribute BTX to Bitcoin holders.
Instead of forking Bitcoin at a specific block and copying the blockchain, Bitcore created a new coin with an empty blockchain. On the 2nd of November 2017 a snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain was created and in the following days approximately ~ 5 000 000 transactions were created to fill all addresses (public keys) on the Bitcore blockchain, that had funds of 0.01 BTC or more on the Bitcoin chain. The funding ratio is 0.5 BTX : 1.0 BTC.
You can read more about this world record in transactions here: Making Blockchain History

You don’t have to download 135 GB+ because the entire blockchain is around ~ 1 GB at the moment so syncing a full wallet is quite fast. This is one of the benefits of not being a conventional Bitcoin fork. See hybrid fork for more information.

Check your Balance with:

Now copy your wallet.dat to your new Bitcore folder. The software automatically updates all your addresses to new public keys starting with “2” instead of a “1”.

You can now interact with all new addresses, however not with the old format. To do so, you need the old version of Bitcore Core (0.15.0.3 or lower).
This is only relevant within the 3 months transition phase. After that period all services and users should be using the new software versions.

Due to potential roadblocks with many hardware and service providers, we have come to the conclusion that it is necessary for us tochange the public key prefix. Since we use the same prefix as bitcoin (“1”, “3” and “bc1”), we decided that Bitcore BTX should use the following new prefixes:

Wallets 1xxx -> 2xxxWallets 3xxx -> sxxxWallets bc1 -> btx

We would like to ask all Bitcore users to slowly but surely upgrade to the new system.To do so, please follow these steps:1. Open your Bitcore core / Bitcore-QT wallet.2. Create a backup of your wallet.dat and store it in a safe place. For example a USB-Stick that you later put in a safe-deposit box.3. Download the latest wallet and replace the wallet.dat that will be created on startup with your old wallet.dat4. Bitcore-QT will automatically create new public keys for your private keys, starting with 2xxx instead of 1xxx.5. It is important to note, that you can only use your old public keys to send to other old addresses and vis versa – you can send only to the new format from the new format. The address formats are not interchangeable.Please note that the private keys are in no way affected by this change. Any private key is fully compatible with both the old formatting as well as the new one.

We also want to inform you that there’s no rush to update, we set a timeframe of 3 months in which we want to complete the transition. After this period bitcore core 0.16 will be released which will only use the new public keys.
If you have any questions feel free to ask here in the forum or on our numerous social media and telegram channels. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1883902.msg40724430#msg40724430 for a full link list.

Be patient. If you have a connection to the network, sometimes syncing can take a while, especially if it is your first time running Bitcore Core (Bitcore-QT).
If you are unable to connect to any node, copy a node list into your bitcore.conf file, located in %appdata%. You can find the full node list here: Bitcore Node List If this doesn’t work, you can try adding them manually via the console. Use addnode x.y.z add
Alternatively you can download our full installer, including our blockchain and a full node list here:Windows Bitcore Installer Core 0.15.0.3

Also, make sure to check the LIMXTEC Github and try the latest version installer for Bitcore.